(3YPRINIDJE. COBITIDINJE. 229 



stained. Two rows of fine black dots along. the dorsal fin, and one 

 across the anal. 



Jfab. Elvers along the lower slopes and base of the Nilgiri 

 hills. 



252. (9.) Nemachilns semiarmatus. 



Nemacheilus semiarmatus, Day, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 286 ; Fish. India, 

 p. 616, pi. clvi, fig. 11 (see synon.). 



B. iii. D. 10-11 (2-3/8). P. 12. V. 7. A. 7 (2/5). C. 18. 



Length of head 5^ in the total length. Eyes diameter 4| in 

 the length of head, 1 diameters from end of snout, 1 diameter 

 apart. The greatest width of the head equals its length excluding 

 the snout. Fins origin of dorsal midway between the snout 

 and the base of the caudal. Caudal lobed in its last half. Lateral 

 line complete. Colour light brown, with numerous irregularly 

 shaped spots and bars proceeding from the back towards the lateral 

 line ; head brownish, with a dark line from the snout through the 

 orbit. Dorsal fin with about three rows of dark "spots; caudal 

 irregularly barred ; a dark line runs along the centre of the back. 



'Hob. Bbavani and Sigur rivers along the base of the Nilgiri 

 hills ; also imported into tanks on those mountains. 



253. (10.) Nemachilus corica. 



Cobitis corica, Ham. Such. Fish. Ganges, pp. 359, 395. 

 Nemacheilus corica, Day, Fish. India, p. 616, pi. clvi, fig. 1 (see 

 synon.). 



Klwrika, Beng. 



B. iii. D. 10(2/8). P. 13. V. 8. A. 7 (2/5). C. 17. 



Length of head 5^ in the total length. Eyes in the middle of 

 the length of the head. Barbels thin, the external rostral pair 

 longer than the orbit. Fins the dorsal commences anterior to 

 the ventral and nearer to the snout than to the base of the caudal, 

 which last is lobed in its posterior half. Scales^ visible in the 

 posterior half of the body. Colour bluish, with about thirteen 

 black blotches along the middle of the side, and smaller ones above 

 and descending to between them ; usually a silvery band along the 

 middle of the side. 



Hab. N.E. Bengal, Punjab, and Assam. 



254. (11.) Nemachilus rupicola. 



148, pi. 55, 



9> 



Schistura rupecula, McCclland, J. A. S. B. vii, p. 948, pi. 65, %. 3. 

 Nemacheilus rupicola, Day, Fish. India, p. 616, pi. cliii, fig. 



synon.). 

 Saant-al, 1'unj. 



B. iii. D. 9-11 (2-3/7-8). P. 10. V. 8. A. 7 (2/5). C. 18. 

 Length of head 51 in the total length. Eyes in the middle of 



